Solar Panel Production Pollution
Why is an electric car good for the enviroment? We never look at impacts of production or on electric grid.?
Should we not look at the impact of mining for battery materials? The ramification of electricity generation ie damming rivers, burning coal, nuclear waste, visual pollution from solar panels? Not to mention the power company monopolies.
Or the energy required to build them.
If we look at a Prius, it takes 113 million BTU’s of energy to manufacture one Prius. The consequence is that you would have to drive it 100,000 miles before it’s less damaging to the environment than a second hand Tercel.
Electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell cars are just the tail fins of today. Just like Flex Fuel, Hybrids, SUV’s, mini-vans, station wagons, tail fins and model years, they are just designed obsolescence to try and get people to buy more cars. It’s about economic growth, not being environmentally friendly. So long as our free market economy does not take into account the total cost to society and the ecosystem, and so long as it’s possible to mislead, misdirect and misinform the consumer, we will always over consume, over produce and we will structure our demographics in unsustainable configurations (too many people in cities dependent on factory jobs vs in the country…). It’s the parable of the commons, such behaviour will lead to a tragic collapse such as we are experiencing now.
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